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Peace Envoys at Portsmouth, N.H. (1905)

Peace Envoys at Portsmouth, N.H. (1905) AM&B

I'm not sure why the negotiations that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but President Theodore Roosevelt had been flexing the United States' power in the world. He had offered to mediate an end to the the war. Russia agreed because of the shocking losses they had suffered...